Context (CMS Context)
Noted 'Framed by P.W. Smith 21.3.78' on old backing board, now disposed of.
Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: Rachel Hand

Context (CMS Context)
Professor Dame Marilyn Stathern, William Wyseman Professor of Anthropology, 1993- 2008, Cambridge University, conducted fieldwork in the New Guinea Highlands and in Port Moresby from the 1960s onward.
Number 1 from a run of 50, made in September 1968.
[From notes by Prof. Marilyn Strathern, 18/8/2003]
(Bio) Tiabe was from the Southern Highlands, but met Georgina Bier when she ran art workshops at the Laloki Mental Home, Port Moresby, 1967-8. This produced PNG's first "outsider" artists, including Tiabe, Kupialdo, Sukoro, Hape and Mathias, whose artworks were shown at the university library in 1968. Some of his works such as ‘Accident’ distrust of Western technology.

Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Screen-print by Tiabe titled 'Moto bagarap' [Motor crash], edition 1/50, 1968. Inscribed in pencil 'Mota baggarap [sic] 1/50a/ TIABE Sep '68'. Condition@ good. (N.B., the print was famed so tight to the glass that it left a posituve impression of the image on the inside of the glass.)
Event Date 5/10/2015
Author: maa